Joaquim de Almeida Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting doing some theater. During the 1980s, he started his film career appearing on the 1982 action film The Soldier, and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987 Italian film Good Morning, Babylon. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1994 thriller Clear and Present Danger and Bucho in the 1995 action thriller Desperado. Several years later, he became popular for playing Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24, between 2003 and 2004, and Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five.Being fluent in several languages, Almeida has worked in several countries in Europe and the Americas, in many film and stage productions, winning some international awards in films like Retrato de Família, Adão e Eva and O Xangô de Baker Street. His other well-known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Only You (1994), La Cucaracha (1998), One Man's Hero (1999), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), Whore (2004), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008).
Lourenço Gonçalves Baptista de Almeida, Ana de Tavares Risques Baptista de Almeida
Parents
Maria Sara Portugal, João Baptista de Almeida
Siblings
Jorge André de Almeida, Isabel Maria de Almeida, Ana Maria de Almeida, José António de Almeida, Maria Sara de Almeida, João de Almeida, Maria Margarida de Almeida
Nominations
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, ALMA Award for Outstanding Latino Cast in a Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series
Movies
Fast Five, Desperado, Our Brand Is Crisis, Clear and Present Danger, The Burning Plain, Behind Enemy Lines, Only You, The Gilded Cage, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, Good Morning, Babylon, One Man's Hero, Che: Part Two, The Celestine Prophecy, According to Pereira, Adam and Eve, Robosapien: Rebooted...
TV Shows
Crusoe, Wanted, Nostromo
Star Sign
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Trademark
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Polyglotism
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Thick portuguese accent
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Frequently plays menacing villans, mostly south-americans or hispanic.
Married firstly in Austria to a Hungarian classical pianist, secondly in New York to an American dancer and thirdly to a Portuguese designer.
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Has two children: his son Lourenço Gonçalves Baptista de Almeida from Cecília Gonçalves born January 25, 1993, and his daughter Ana de Tavares Risques Baptista de Almeida from Maria do Carmo Gaivão de Tavares Risques Pereira whom he lived with, born August 29, 2002.
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Son of João Baptista de Almeida and wife Maria Sara Alves Portugal (b. Belmonte, Inguias, Carvalhal Formoso, 1921, d. March 22, 2007). They were both graduated in Pharmacy and Technical Directors of J.A.B.A. Laboratories. Has five older siblings: Jorge André, Isabel Maria, Ana Maria, José António and João. His paternal grandfather José António Baptista de Almeida (b. Lagos, 1887, d. Lisbon, 1950), was also a pharmaceutical (diplomed by the Pharmacy School of Lisbon in 1909) and the founder of J.A.B.A. Laboratories.